skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hilarious. This is not something that employees and engineers have any control over, and framing it like this is passing the buck. Furthermore, user privacy is a fundamental top down engineering decision, not something that any individual can "do better on."
And if your compiler can't do it, your hardware might.
Except, if a whole generation YOLOs hard enough, maybe the government will actually choose to bail them out for once.
Trained by who? what are you talking about?
New Future of Work: Microsoft Report on the Pandemic’s Impact on Work Practices [pdf]
The UK Has Chosen Who Will Build Its First Prototype Loyal Wingman Combat Drone
Farm Protests in India Are Writing the Green Revolution’s Obituary
This is all fascinating (and comforting).

I'm curious about non-US nuclear weapons and how many of these safety measures are present in those weapons.
I question how low latency these links will be, given the sheer number of hops (and thus queues and transceiver modulations) required to span the globe. And, of course, every round trip requires four trips through the atmosphere. Then you have the Manhattan distance of the hops. Maybe dedicated QoS flows along orbital planes stand a chance, not so general Internet traffic.

(downvotes don’t change facts, kiddos)
It's tricky though, right, because these sorts of societal collapses do happen! We've seen them many times throughout history.

I think the pure numbers indicate that the next one probably won't happen in my lifetime (good), but I do think it will happen! What makes us think our society is special?
They essentially drove one of wall streets very successful hedge funds of recent years to near failure they had to make a deal for an emergency investment today to stay afloat. I’d call that winning.
Curious what does the “Debug” button do on the right hand side?
It's disturbing and dishonest how the media is painting an image where the day traders on WallStreetBets are the villains and the hedge funds shorting this stock to over 100% of float for over the past year and also purchasing large numbers of puts so market makers naked short to hedge are the victims.

The float has been over 100% shorted for over a year. The shorts could have easily covered or trimmed their position when the stock was trading in the $3-$4 range this spring and summer for a profit but they chose not to. Book value was estimated to be $10 at that time. News came out that improved GameStop's situation and its future appeared less bleak. There should have been short covering on each of those pieces of news: GameStop paying off debt early, Ryan Cohen first buying 5% of the company, then 13%, then joining the board with 2 other CHEWY executives, the new PlayStation and XBox consoles releasing and always being immediately sold out, the microsoft profit sharing deal, huge ecommerce growth yoy, etc. But the shorts chose not to cover at all! Short float remained the same at over 100% as more new people bought into the company on the good news.

Many people may not know this but a new CEO was hired 2 years ago: George Sherman, and he's been doing a good job of turning around the company by doing unsexy things like shutting down unprofitable stores like where there's 2 GameStops in a single mall and improving their supply chain logistics and ecommerce business. 95% of all GameStop stores are 4 wall ebitda profitiable was what they said on a conference call 2 years ago.

I would also like to point out GameStop is a highly cyclical business. It depends a lot on the 7 year playstation and xbox console cycle. Look back on the historic stock chart. People think it's failing because revenue declines year over year then the stock goes parabolic in the new console release year. It's like the console cycle isn't priced in until it hits people in the face.
It is not a "literally impossible" future, but given what the past has been, this is definitely an improbable incredulous future.
> The virus can't "evolve" its way around not reaching the host very well.

That's what "becoming more contagious" is. Obviously, no one in a submarine is getting it until it docks, but when you're dealing with 95% effective masks, tests that have a 20% false negative rate, and surfaces not being an effective vector, there are still plenty of opportunities to reach the host, and we're selecting for viruses that were able to. Someone else mentioned measles; sars-cov2 is nowhere near that contagious, but it means there's room for it to get worse.
The US should make a very direct statement that we will defend Taiwan in case of a Chinese attack and be done with it. We have danced around this for to many years. Nixon was right in opening up China, but he should have secured Taiwan independence as part of the agreement to recognize China. He would have received it back then.

Taiwan is a vibrant healthy democracy and it should be made clear to China that the reset of the worlds democracies will defend her.
I got none of that and it loaded very quickly, presumably thanks to uBlock.
In fact, Citadel Securities has gained a lot money from the $GME event.

Citadel Securities pays tens of millions of dollars for Robinhood order flow.
For what its worth, I made less than $30k/yr (with zero benefits) for a few years after graduating college about 10 years ago, despite working full time. I make more now, but probably less than you'd think based on the group here - I dont work in tech.

The average salary for people with a college degree is about $50k: https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/pay-salary/average-sala...
I think this is more like beanie babies all over again. Except now that its easier to trade its happening in stocks.

Populism of a companies stock doesnt really change the performance of that company. GME will implode eventually and the newest suckers or WSB will be left holding the bag.
My cynical view on this is that Facebook has realized they can better protect their market dominance by raising the walls on their garden and locking down your data as much as possible, and calling that privacy. I expect them to fight data portability initiatives tooth and nail in the name of said "privacy."
git reflog?
and then we come back to one of the original missions of the NSA, which was to intercept international telephone call/data/telex traffic that had no terrestrial intermediary, between two different C or Ku band geostationary earth stations in two different locations of the world which were using a geostationary transponder as a relay point.

If it's flying through the air and somebody really wants to grab it they will, whether they can read it depends on how good your crypto is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Menwith_Hill
FWIW Aviron means Airplane in Hebrew.
I believe you are both mistaken.

From what I've read, there are some states/localities that have paper ballots they can check, including swing states like Georgia, where they did audit that exact thing.

But then there are other states that do not keep the paper trail, most of which went "red" according to an article I read but did not verify.
Yes. Been using Syncthing and it's been great. Only down side is there's no iOS port.
"Starting in January we are changing the way we approach product development in FRL"

The key phrase here is "in FRL". Even if they follow through, Reality Labs is one small corner of Facebook.
Another pro for Kubernetes is that it has a lot of inertia at the moment with a large contributing community and a large pool of engineers with experience in using it. It's a guess, but would assume the talent pool for hpc stuff isn't as big.

And yea, I like the ability to easily support a diverse set of workloads on the same cluster. It's a simple and easier to understand architecture compared to my previous experience with hadoop.
It used to be the case that accusations of voting machine related fraud came habitually and often from the left[0]. I wish we had open-source, publicly reviewed voting machines..

Diebold used to be the bête-noire of computer security people. Not particularly relevant but Dominion inherited Diebold with one of their acquisitions.

0. https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006...
Handcounting every single vote? That seems much more error prone than anything the U.S. uses. Ballot-marking devices used in many states[1] produce paper ballots that voter can validate and have some guarantee that it can be scanned in tabulation. I trust audited software to tabulate my vote much more than an overworked ballot counter.

[1]: https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_methods_and_equipment_by_stat...
> There is nothing in any form of business analysis that justifies that.

You haven't consulted all the business analysts in the world before saying that though. There might be something.

I get that you're convinced - but you aren't presenting an actual line of thinking that links the two things. You've just noticed that WSB is talking about something and the thing goes up - this is the famous correlation and causation problem.
It'd be like trying to talk to a 9/11-truther or a flat-earther, they'll have a refutation ready for all of your evidence, or they'll convince themselves your cited sources are part of the conspiracy..

They'll use any excuse to delude themselves that they're correct, because to admit otherwise is to admit that they were dumb enough to have been conned by a terrible conman. When they saw the morons attacking congress, they convinced themselves "people wearing helmets are Antifa, and all the attackers are Antifa plants...".
Wildfire Smoke Is Alive
A couple of hedge fund managers shorting GME may have gotten kicked in the nuts, but Wall Street as a whole is laughing all the way to the bank. A friend of mine working at a high-frequency trading co says 2020 was their best year ever and by a long shot, because volatility plus clueless retail investors (yes, that means you, /r/wsb'ers YOLOing on Robinhood) means arbitrage and frontrunning rakes in money.
> To use this on Windows I suggest using Subsystem for Linux or Cygwin.

Unless you live inside these environments, an easier option would be rclone[1]. I use it on a regular basis to sync large loads to Digital Ocean Spaces, including its bandwidth limiting schedule to avoid saturating the residential uplink at inconvenient times.

[1] https://rclone.org
That did it, thank you!
I did it for municipal elections in Quebec (which follows the provincial rules) and the big important thing to note is that people voted for two things, mayor and councillor, and received two separate ballots on different papers.

There’s also the fact that the ballot is white text on black with a white circle to fill in. This design decision is ingenious in how it eliminates doubts about voting.
This is what I use and I love it. Still working out what I want to do for backing it up to the cloud though. It has a very easy built on way to do that too, but im trying to figure out how "trust no one" I am with encryption and what exactly I really want to pay to keep around forever.
Ask HN: What did early Netscape programmers put on their teammate's desk
when that teammate introduced a bug in prod? A banana? Pineapple? Rubber duck???

The idea was that you wouldn't want to be the one with the [object] on your desk ALL the time for obvious reasons, but you also wouldn't to NEVER have [object] on (around? over?) your desk either because it meant you weren't moving quickly enough or taking enough risks.

I swear I read this somewhere but I am clearly forgetting enough key details of this anecdote that it is impossible to search and verify. It is driving me crazy and any help would be greatly appreciated.
It makes clear in the memo, this is FRL (Oculus), not Facebook as a whole.
3 PHz is way into the UV part of EM, near IR is about 30 THz so 300 Gbps max on a NIR channel using your numbers?
A big asteroid, a rocket to get there and a whole bunch of paint would already be a weapon of mass destruction.
This is being framed as "prioritizing privacy means we'll make more money in today's environment" which sounds exactly liked how Facebook operates. They don't care about anything except whatever makes them the most money. Today that's (some) privacy apparently. Tomorrow it may not be and they'll already have all your historical data to again start mining/selling/exploiting.
I'm not sure how comparable that data is. It seems to just sum up the times where random Tesla's where in Autopilot mode:

1. Autopilot from my understanding is L3 driving, with the driving needing to be attentive
2. They are not recording disengagements, or even near accidents, only full accidents
3. It seems to be like people would use Autopilot mostly on highways and other places where it works more reliably, so it's not a uniform set of miles

By comparison, here is 21 months of self-driving data from Waymo, with every disengagement and near accidents reported [0]. It's L4 driving with no drivers at the wheel. I'm sure Tesla tests their FSD similarly, and probably tracks similar data, are they releasing that? The other ones you posted says very little.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/30/21538999/waymo-self-driv...
The accusations in the article you linked are fact-based and mostly related to security. They're not comparable to the lunacy people are inventing about Dominion.
Yes it is. Psychologists get paid about $120k/yr with the same amount of schooling and expense as an actual doctor.

It's not as intense as med school is and their internships are normal hours instead of the official hazing ritual that is residency, but the expense is very high unless you get lucky and get a publicly funded PhD program, and then half of your education is research instead of therapy.

Insurance defines the financial demand which determines the pay of psychologists and the amount hired.
They are winning. That’s what people don’t get. This whole dumb money never wins mantra is what’s driving WSB. It’s a bucking of that false narrative. People working on Wall Street aren’t gods, but it’s their job to convince you they are
>We can remain retarded longer than they can remain solvent.

There is a tremendous amount of spite involved here. They hate the boomers, and they hate the institutional wallstreet investors and hedgies. And why shouldn't they? These people play with our lives and get fantastically wealthy by gambling with our retirement accounts.

I saw that some hedge fund got wiped out today by this. Sorry I won't be shedding any tears over that. Maybe the hedgies should have to learn to code.
this a profound (intentional?) misreading of how a short squeeze functions. the shorts are the ones who end up "holding the bag" in that they are contractually obligated to buy shares at current (higher) value in order to cover their position.

hence the "taking on wall street" angle - institutional shorts are the chump, not the retail investors (and the institutions going long with them)
Oh I wish but Wall St creates the rules so I wouldn't be surprised if they find a way to save their butts on a short squeeze.
If this is truly a shift in ideology at the leadership level, it's long overdue, but a welcome change; Facebook has depended on privacy-breaching practices for far too long. There will have to be some serious innovation and effort from their end in order to come up with a different business model and undo the damage that they've done thus far.

This could just be a big sham that the leadership is trying to make a big deal about, but I'm hopeful that they've finally realized that the path they're going down isn't sustainable.
I imagine that compared to the fully-loaded cost per hour of Amundsen-Scott station just to exist, be periodically resupplied, pay salaries of staff, buy equipment, transport logistics...

Even if you maintained multiple $1.25 per minute (or $5 per megabyte) Iridium links, operating 24x7x365, it would be a teensy tiny drop in the bucket compared to the total budget of the station.
Not sure if I should downvote you or flag you, as what you've written seems to come from some bizzaro parallel universe, but even then I can't grok a universe where someone could flee Microsoft for Facebook.

"Yeah I was gonna finish this important Excel spreadsheet, but instead all I can do is like my not-really-friend's cat videos because I value my privacy."
In addition to most FPS games, I found that roguelikes, platformers, and RPGs were still pretty satisfying. Basically, any game I could simply react to that didn't require thinking more than a couple seconds in advance.

A lot of Nintendo games are still that way. If you don't have a Nintendo Switch, you may find that you would enjoy it on your commute.
> a traditional hand-filled ballot doesn't leave a useful paper trail because there's no evidence that the voter placed the pen markings where they intended to place them

But that's on me, the voter; it's up to me to check that my ballot reflects my intent before I submit it to be counted. If I make a mistake, I can always ask for a new ballot. So the paper ballot reflects what I, the voter, submitted to be counted, and that's the best that could possibly be done as far as an audit trail is concerned.
No, it really is just random people rallying together. What is fishy is who is on the other end of the play and getting a black eye for once.
The magic words for this is "zeroing idiom".
C2 really is the monster in the room. The rowing machine market is less diverse than exercise bikes, and C2 sits atop the mountain. Anyone who rows seriously (and many who don't) have used a C2 at some point.

The Aviron Impact Series (an odd name for a low-impact exercise machine) rower is $2149, while a C2 Model D is $900.

The Model D has been in gyms for decades. Literally, your local gym may have one that's decades old and still in perfect shape. Olympic rowers train on them. A significant portion of people who row already have one and aren't going to need a replacement any time soon.

The video on Aviron's website focuses heavily on the software, but the rower itself does not look like it should cost twice what a C2 does. The belt is plastic. The rail's finish looks like it will wear off. The rear support looks less sturdy and stable than that of a C2. The ramrod straight handle looks blister-inducing. The whole thing looks very plastic. Note that I'm not saying the rower isn't worth the money. The build quality and ergonomics might be excellent. It just doesn't look like a rower that's worth 2.39 C2's.

The display is a big improvement over anything C2 sells, but $1249 can buy a pretty nice display and a basic computer to run it, or a big ol' tablet and a mount.

Peloton probably had an easier time entering the exercise bike market because there wasn't any one competitor as dominant as C2 is. However, they do now offer an app that lets people use their software and classes without buying a Peloton bike.

The question for Aviron is, can they sell their rower without their software being exclusive to it? They would undoubtedly find more users if they supported other rowers, C2 specifically, but would the extra monthly memberships bring in more than sales from their rower if the software remained exclusive to it?
Thank you, you are thinking much clearer than I

And when you put it like that, it's particularly upsetting that we lose up to 150 species a day
A few states are using direct recording systems, without a paper trail:

https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_methods_and_equipment_by_stat...

"Currently only one state — Louisiana — keeps no paper trail of votes at all. Counties in eight states — Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas — use a hybrid system" where some, but not all votes will have a paper trail.

(from https://madison.com/on-paper-ballots-for-the-2020-election/a...)
I honestly was only following this a little but when Giuliani told me to buy his cigars with RUDY20 or some such nonsense during a video that was supposed to be about election fraud I just nope'd right out. Like, yeah if this is that important to you I would hope you would know not to cheapen the entire message as a paid advert for some no-name cigar company.
How does it stand up in terms of functionality? I'm otherwise pretty happy with my Netgate appliance even if this news is a bit disappointing.
When you are the NY times, you can hire an ad sales team, and charge advertisers enough for non targeted ads to make that profitable. It turns out this is a little harder for "Joe Bloggs anime reviews"
Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Developing Female Kurdish Militia Drama for TV
DNA is made up of 4 main components (G,C,A and T). Very generally these encode instructions for making proteins.

Those blocks are very small, less than 20 Atoms.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenine

They’re working on using it for storage. (very slow read write times). Duplicating shouldn’t be a problem.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_digital_data_storage
I thought my assumptions would make it very clear that this is not a realistic scenario. I'm just evaluating the idea proposed in the article, not its practicality.
> Roma from Romania are not illegitimate. They are free to move across Europe.

Note that freedom of movevement inside EU/EEA is not unrestricted (like, say, inside USA), see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Rights_Directive :

> To be fully covered by the European right of free movement, the EEA citizen needs to exercise one of the four treaty rights:

> - working as an employee (this includes looking for work for a reasonable amount of time),

> - working as a self-employed person,

> - studying,

> - being self-sufficient or retired.
The jury is still deliberating whether WSB is an effective cartel or not. At the end of the day, the members total investment is so small that it doubtfully makes any difference. It is probably more analogous to Ed Thorp's Beat the Dealer. He devised an algorithm to count cards. Ran a simulation on a computer at MIT, got bankrolled, and went to Reno to test it in person. Why didn't he continue counting cards in Nevada? Because hedge funds are more lucrative per effort.

Nonetheless, after he published Beat the Dealer casinos greatly benefitted rather than a situation where they lost revenue from Blackjack card counters. Thousands of people believing that they could make a fortune using his system went to the casinos. Between the free drinks and the inability to focus, people lost fortunes instead. Moreover, Blackjack remained hugely popular.

You never hear about people losing money in Vegas, only about that one time someone won big. It's the same with WSB, sort of. They do lose money and lots of it. Moreover, they post the losses. It is only during squeezes like with Tesla do we hear about it in the media.

Still, at the end of the day, they invest a very, very small sum of money and can't have much influence. I thought for a while that maybe there were outside influences driving memes to get the cartel to behave a certain way, but decided they are not much of a force.
Wow! Talking about expensive services! 1Password as other noted does this and more fore less!
There is a fundamental difference between math and code. In a typical modern day computer instructions, and the data to be manipulated are put in the same place [1]. This is a critical feature that makes things like downloading a program and running it possible. But for programmers to keep their code "safe" they must enforce artificial boundaries between the instructions (code) and the data. Hackers are experts at crossing those boundaries and tricking computers to treat data as code when they shouldn't.

Mathematicians have the good sense to keep their data and instructions separate. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored-program_computer
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_(mathematics)
Orly – An open-source graph database (2014)
Yep. And this doesn't even count things that you build too. Like a motorized #32 meat grinder that would have cost $800 for only $200.